a biggie but a goodie
i feel better than i have for a long long time. lighter. it's such a nice day today too. the kind of day i'm just happy to be outside. happy to walk slowly and feel the sun and the wind. the kind of day that i just feel thankful--a welling up of feeling for the simple goodnesses in my life.
i've been busy. katie and brent came over on friday night. when they arrived i was downstairs with heather and sarita watching katrina footage. katie and brent came bearing a large bucket of candy popcorn from kernels. one side was double dipped (brent's favourite) and the other side was butter pecan. equally good, was what katie and i decided after numerous taste tests. we were gorging ourselves on it, plain popcorn gluttony. mom would be proud. the jeanie-gene is shapped like a fluffy popped corn. katie and i decided to watch a movie. brent said he'd just fall asleep and that reminded me of karey. "karey is your brent." said katie. maybe brent is her karey. katie and i sat in front of the display of dvds and videos. we each drew out our choices and then went through the elimination proccess which was very painful for us. "it's not life and death." i told katie when she was particularily agonized over a choice. katie echoed this back to me when i was left to chose between the last two surviving dvds. it's different when it's the final choice. i finallly settled with the joy luck club which i have been wanting to watch again for quite a while. we had just started it, when karey came home from her 'date' with randy. so we put it on pause and talked. brent fell asleep and karey went to bed and we continued to talk. we talked and talked and talked. i suggested that we go to my room to talk so that we wouldn't have to worry about keeping anyone up. we both stood up and i pointed at brent who was sprawled out and overflowing out of the small green chair, head back and snoring ("you have to sleep with?" karey had asked earilier. "that's nothing." katie protested "that's just breathing.") "what are we going to do with brent?" i asked. "just leave him until we go to bed." katie said expertly. "ok." i shrugged. and so our talk marathon continued in the bedroom. eventually we decided to go to bed. that was around 2:30. brent was already asleep on the couch. after we were under the covers with the lights out, we talked for another two hours before going to sleep. the funny thing was that i didn't really feel overwhelmingly tired even then.
i think that katie and i woke up around 10 something. brent had been up early ready to help me take my car in to get the brakes done (i had mentioned that i was going to take it in at 8 in the next morning) meanwhile katie and i were snoozing away. so i got ready and katie went for a run while brent and i went to canadian tire. turns out i live under an dark cloud when it comes to finances. my brakes cost a lot. A LOT. the only reason i could afford it was because karey let me put half of it on her canadian tire card. nervous laugh.
katie and brent took me out for lunch at shabusen. they were only too happy to have japanese all you can eat. i tried out the shabusen on south granville instead of the down town one. it was 'ight. their gomae ws different and you could only get the fried rice for dinner. brent was only to happy to do the korean bbqing and it was wierd not pushing and shoving somebody else to do it. just goes to prove that bitu's not a real man. real men like to bbq. sorry bitsy. you'll always have your socks! heh heh. i don't think the little man reads anymore, but no harm in giving him a dig now and and then just in case. anyways everything was so tasty and hit-the-spot-ish and we had a good time. i didn't even stuff myself to the uncomfy level.
on the way home we stopped at oakridge so brent could buy a phone charger. then we looked around a bit. katie and i went into aritzia to look at a bag i saw in the window. i never feel comfortable going in there unless i'm accompanied by a thin smallish person. katie suited fine. anyways i really liked the bag. it was an over the shoulder, casual, comfy, red beauty. i need a new overtheshoulder bigger bag. my fave is worn out. but it's not like i have 45 dollars to spend on myself. so i looked and petted and left.
brent took the exit out of oakridge going west instead of east and i told him so. "really?" he said. yep. so he pulled a U-ie. but minivans don't make the best U-ie veHIcles and he wasn't going to make it. so he just rammed the curb a little bit. katie didn't like that. "ow." she said. "you hurt me." a few minutes later when we were pulling onto our road, brent pulled over. "i think we have a flat." he said. he got out and looked at the driver's side tire. "nope." he said while katie protested "you hit MY side!" he started going again only to pull over "something's definitely not right." we all got out and looked at what i will call katies' tire. there was a big rip in it and pretty much no air.
luckily we were close to home and after katie and i walked there to get karey's wrench and car jack, we pulled out the camping chairs, pointed karen's little tv out at us (thanks karen) and started watching the hillary duff movie, raise your voice or something like that. brent went about his business. we basically payed him no mind. it started to rain and in the reflection of the tv you could see two hooded heads staring back at you. a good samaritan came out to help brent after katie told him to say a prayer. it was the best flat tire experience i've ever had, i think. UNfortunately brent was done before the movie was over.
that night was karey's birthday bbq. in honour of evan i will attempt to name every person who attended. (just for argument's sake) Scott, Mark and Randy, Fox and Amy and Pete, Tania and VicTOR, Chandra and Vicki, Gab and Jonathon, Kyla and our house. it was a nice sized group. they didn't want it too big. it was a nice night. we were ibkt nussubg barb who was in cali. ( hey that JUST reminded me that i promised to pick her up tonight. good thing. whew.) mark ended up bbqing everybody's meat. chandra brought her famous cookies. poor randy said to her "i'm glad you didn't bring your cookies." we all looked at each other. "i did." she appologized. randy's lost a lot of weight already. he's been a fishing manaic. karey went with him on friday night. then he took her out to dinner in steveston. i was thinking of coming along too, but then they'd have to go out to eat another time. ha ha. i don't know why, but ok. that's just randy. i needed to work on my room anyways. so the bbq was a good time for all. after everyone left i watched joy luck club and had a good cry.
yesterday was potluck. i brought bread and peanut butter. i'm poor now. luckily the theme was poor student dinners. eric-the-guy-with-the-odd-dreams-and-who-mooches-off-the-campers sat with us because this new girl sat with us. she's from castlegar and eric offered to drive her home. he was behind me and tania when we were walking out to the car and eric pointed out his truck to the new girl. "that's my truck." "oh, yeah." she commented. "i knew a chick from castlegar would like that truck." he beamed. i was a little amused.
on the way home i played name that tune with victor and tania. i'd whistle and if they could say the title in spanish or english then they got 2 points. if they could only get the tune then they got only 1 point. it was hilarious how competitve they got. "this is mine! 2 points for victor!" "victor!! i said it first!" ha ha ha. i amused myself all the way to their house.
i forgot to say that justin was at church yesterday. he came in late and sat in the end of our row. i have him a surprised welcoming but whispered "hey!" and i got a "hey!" in return. justin leaves for his mission tomorrow. he gave a farewell testimony. i'm glad he finally gets to go. i didn't go to his open house because i didn't have any gas at all, and karey and elicia left from church and i had already driven (is that a word?) home. too bad because that would have been nice. when they got back they came in and talked to me. elicia didn't leave until 2:30. we talked about a lot of different things. amongst them the things we've learned from the relationships we've been in. it was nice. i've done a lot of talking lately.
today me and sarita and heather and elicia watched dear frankie. i've been waiting quite a while for the pleasure. it was good. enjoyable and the guy was hubba hubba. later karey and elicai and i went to steveston. we just looked in the shops and ate on the wharf. i got shipwreck fries. that's with sourcream and melted cheese and bacon and chives. it was a layed back kind of time. i enjoyed.
speaking of enjoyment, we're having ice cream. bah bye.
i've been busy. katie and brent came over on friday night. when they arrived i was downstairs with heather and sarita watching katrina footage. katie and brent came bearing a large bucket of candy popcorn from kernels. one side was double dipped (brent's favourite) and the other side was butter pecan. equally good, was what katie and i decided after numerous taste tests. we were gorging ourselves on it, plain popcorn gluttony. mom would be proud. the jeanie-gene is shapped like a fluffy popped corn. katie and i decided to watch a movie. brent said he'd just fall asleep and that reminded me of karey. "karey is your brent." said katie. maybe brent is her karey. katie and i sat in front of the display of dvds and videos. we each drew out our choices and then went through the elimination proccess which was very painful for us. "it's not life and death." i told katie when she was particularily agonized over a choice. katie echoed this back to me when i was left to chose between the last two surviving dvds. it's different when it's the final choice. i finallly settled with the joy luck club which i have been wanting to watch again for quite a while. we had just started it, when karey came home from her 'date' with randy. so we put it on pause and talked. brent fell asleep and karey went to bed and we continued to talk. we talked and talked and talked. i suggested that we go to my room to talk so that we wouldn't have to worry about keeping anyone up. we both stood up and i pointed at brent who was sprawled out and overflowing out of the small green chair, head back and snoring ("you have to sleep with?" karey had asked earilier. "that's nothing." katie protested "that's just breathing.") "what are we going to do with brent?" i asked. "just leave him until we go to bed." katie said expertly. "ok." i shrugged. and so our talk marathon continued in the bedroom. eventually we decided to go to bed. that was around 2:30. brent was already asleep on the couch. after we were under the covers with the lights out, we talked for another two hours before going to sleep. the funny thing was that i didn't really feel overwhelmingly tired even then.
i think that katie and i woke up around 10 something. brent had been up early ready to help me take my car in to get the brakes done (i had mentioned that i was going to take it in at 8 in the next morning) meanwhile katie and i were snoozing away. so i got ready and katie went for a run while brent and i went to canadian tire. turns out i live under an dark cloud when it comes to finances. my brakes cost a lot. A LOT. the only reason i could afford it was because karey let me put half of it on her canadian tire card. nervous laugh.
katie and brent took me out for lunch at shabusen. they were only too happy to have japanese all you can eat. i tried out the shabusen on south granville instead of the down town one. it was 'ight. their gomae ws different and you could only get the fried rice for dinner. brent was only to happy to do the korean bbqing and it was wierd not pushing and shoving somebody else to do it. just goes to prove that bitu's not a real man. real men like to bbq. sorry bitsy. you'll always have your socks! heh heh. i don't think the little man reads anymore, but no harm in giving him a dig now and and then just in case. anyways everything was so tasty and hit-the-spot-ish and we had a good time. i didn't even stuff myself to the uncomfy level.
on the way home we stopped at oakridge so brent could buy a phone charger. then we looked around a bit. katie and i went into aritzia to look at a bag i saw in the window. i never feel comfortable going in there unless i'm accompanied by a thin smallish person. katie suited fine. anyways i really liked the bag. it was an over the shoulder, casual, comfy, red beauty. i need a new overtheshoulder bigger bag. my fave is worn out. but it's not like i have 45 dollars to spend on myself. so i looked and petted and left.
brent took the exit out of oakridge going west instead of east and i told him so. "really?" he said. yep. so he pulled a U-ie. but minivans don't make the best U-ie veHIcles and he wasn't going to make it. so he just rammed the curb a little bit. katie didn't like that. "ow." she said. "you hurt me." a few minutes later when we were pulling onto our road, brent pulled over. "i think we have a flat." he said. he got out and looked at the driver's side tire. "nope." he said while katie protested "you hit MY side!" he started going again only to pull over "something's definitely not right." we all got out and looked at what i will call katies' tire. there was a big rip in it and pretty much no air.
luckily we were close to home and after katie and i walked there to get karey's wrench and car jack, we pulled out the camping chairs, pointed karen's little tv out at us (thanks karen) and started watching the hillary duff movie, raise your voice or something like that. brent went about his business. we basically payed him no mind. it started to rain and in the reflection of the tv you could see two hooded heads staring back at you. a good samaritan came out to help brent after katie told him to say a prayer. it was the best flat tire experience i've ever had, i think. UNfortunately brent was done before the movie was over.
that night was karey's birthday bbq. in honour of evan i will attempt to name every person who attended. (just for argument's sake) Scott, Mark and Randy, Fox and Amy and Pete, Tania and VicTOR, Chandra and Vicki, Gab and Jonathon, Kyla and our house. it was a nice sized group. they didn't want it too big. it was a nice night. we were ibkt nussubg barb who was in cali. ( hey that JUST reminded me that i promised to pick her up tonight. good thing. whew.) mark ended up bbqing everybody's meat. chandra brought her famous cookies. poor randy said to her "i'm glad you didn't bring your cookies." we all looked at each other. "i did." she appologized. randy's lost a lot of weight already. he's been a fishing manaic. karey went with him on friday night. then he took her out to dinner in steveston. i was thinking of coming along too, but then they'd have to go out to eat another time. ha ha. i don't know why, but ok. that's just randy. i needed to work on my room anyways. so the bbq was a good time for all. after everyone left i watched joy luck club and had a good cry.
yesterday was potluck. i brought bread and peanut butter. i'm poor now. luckily the theme was poor student dinners. eric-the-guy-with-the-odd-dreams-and-who-mooches-off-the-campers sat with us because this new girl sat with us. she's from castlegar and eric offered to drive her home. he was behind me and tania when we were walking out to the car and eric pointed out his truck to the new girl. "that's my truck." "oh, yeah." she commented. "i knew a chick from castlegar would like that truck." he beamed. i was a little amused.
on the way home i played name that tune with victor and tania. i'd whistle and if they could say the title in spanish or english then they got 2 points. if they could only get the tune then they got only 1 point. it was hilarious how competitve they got. "this is mine! 2 points for victor!" "victor!! i said it first!" ha ha ha. i amused myself all the way to their house.
i forgot to say that justin was at church yesterday. he came in late and sat in the end of our row. i have him a surprised welcoming but whispered "hey!" and i got a "hey!" in return. justin leaves for his mission tomorrow. he gave a farewell testimony. i'm glad he finally gets to go. i didn't go to his open house because i didn't have any gas at all, and karey and elicia left from church and i had already driven (is that a word?) home. too bad because that would have been nice. when they got back they came in and talked to me. elicia didn't leave until 2:30. we talked about a lot of different things. amongst them the things we've learned from the relationships we've been in. it was nice. i've done a lot of talking lately.
today me and sarita and heather and elicia watched dear frankie. i've been waiting quite a while for the pleasure. it was good. enjoyable and the guy was hubba hubba. later karey and elicai and i went to steveston. we just looked in the shops and ate on the wharf. i got shipwreck fries. that's with sourcream and melted cheese and bacon and chives. it was a layed back kind of time. i enjoyed.
speaking of enjoyment, we're having ice cream. bah bye.
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